12 AM
Envoi
1
Night’s incoming waves,
flickering candles,
yellow flames,
altar-white table cloth
with its cross of flowers;
evensong:
an ebb tide dangling its flotsam
at the end of a long white string.
Mala madre,
the spider plant,
an evil mother
abandoning
her unwanted children.
2
I clasp your hand in a confessional of dust:
your fingers knit themselves with mine.
Each wrinkle
on your hand
as fine as
a silk spun web.
3
Yesterday
I tapped
with ardent spoon
on the graceless grapefruit’s
golden skull.
When we awake
I will boil us
each an egg.
Squeezed orange:
as warm as
this fierce embrace,
as sweet as
sunshine,
moonlight,
starlight;
silent bird:
midnight branch.
rogermoorepoet 
As to wondering what to work on next, I love to have multiple projects since I can choose what to work on depending on my mood!
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Each image a little (or a lot) unsettling. For example the cross of flowers.
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It seems to be a speciality of Oaxaca: a cross with flowers painted or engraved on it. I have a lovely one in my kitchen: a deep blue cross with five white lilies (alcatraces in Spanish).
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Excellent! I loved the vivid images you added to this.
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Thanks, Tanya. This is the last of the poems in this specific collection. Now I am wondering what to do. I am still working on Bistro and can post regularly from there. The the two companion pieces to Obsidian’s Edge both need revision, and I could go there … or else I could work with the two poetry books that I am revising at present … mainly unpublished work … So …The other possibility is to attach the dream sequence (prose) that I wrote for the midnight to 6:00 am session that I needed to complete the day. maybe I’ll do that … just thinking in print here … yet another possibility is to run through the Selected Poems on which I am also currently working … I am spoiled for choice … and I don’t know which way to go with this, not as yet.
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Being spoiled for choice has its benefits…Lol.
I’m sure I will enjoy whatever you select!
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